NURS1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Socioeconomic Status, Civil Society, Millennium Development Goals
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The sociological imagination: a term coined by charles wright mills to describe the sociological approach to analysing issues. We see the world through a sociological imagination, or think sociologically, when we make a link between personal troubles and public issues. Critical thinking: the art of analysing and evaluating thinking with a view to improving it. Reflective thinking: a part of the critical thinking process referring specifically to the process of analysing and making judgements about what has happened. It is an active, persistent and careful consideration of a belief of a belief or supposed form of knowledge, of the grounds that support that knowledge and the further conclusions to which that knowledge leads. The social production and distribution if health and illness: the impact of society on disease patterning. The social construction of health and illness: definitions of health and illness vary within groups and over time.
